[kaffe] kaffe: different compilers giving different results for the same source file

[Rogério Brito]

Package: kaffe
Version: 2:1.1.4.PRE1.1.5-11
Severity: normal

Please, bear with me with this bugreport, as I am a novice regarding Java.
I would appreciate any help that you might have.

BTW, just as a side note, I became interested in Java after it entered
Debian's testing distribution, which meant to me that Java was finally an
option for some classes that I intend to teach.

Anyway, I have one source file that *fails* to compile with Blackdown's
JDK, but that compiles *correctly* with kaffe's compiler. Some (unkind)
souls told me that kaffe's compiler is in error here and I honestly don't
know.

You can see the file, including more details in my Usenet post at:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=2n32aaFqarpvU1%40uni-berlin.de>.

Any comments or questions regarding my setup are welcome.


Thanks for your attention, Rogério.

P.S.: I'm also Cc'ing the people on kaffe.org's mailing list.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR

Versions of packages kaffe depends on:
ii  kaffe-pthreads       2:1.1.4.PRE1.1.5-11 A POSIX threads enabled version of

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